Honkai Impact: Did you meet the First Herrscher when you first arrived? !

After Jess finished copying the files, he handed the USB drive to Cocolia, saying, "All done."

Cocolia glanced at Jess in front of her, smiled, and said, "Okay, thank you!"

After watching Cocolia turn and walk away, Jess sighed, "Sigh, really, I don't know how Li Ming got used to it before. His personality is just too unpredictable."

"Don't speak ill of me, I can hear you!" Cocolia, who had just left, turned back.

Jess chuckled as he zipped up his lip, and Cocolia glared at him before leaving the base.

After confirming from the command center that Cocolia had left, Jess sighed and dialed Li Ming's number in the Far East.

"I don't buy insurance or funds, I'm in good health, I don't have elderly parents, I'm not short of money, I don't have children, I've already graduated, and I don't want to take out a loan..."

"Wait, wait, are you stacking buffs here?" Jess said that he had just answered the phone when he heard Li Ming's long string of armor stacks.

At this moment, Li Ming in the Far East also realized what was happening, and the taste of his "layered armor" suddenly changed. "Oh, Jess, by the way, I want a hundred of Mikoyan Industries' cathode ion cannons!"

Do you think I'm a wholesaler?

Jess held the phone in one hand and rolled his eyes at the air. Li Ming was still as shameless as ever. That smell was just right.

"I closed such a big deal, shouldn't I be rewarded?"

Li Ming had just dropped Mei off at home. He was mainly worried that Uncle Ryoma would chase after him and kill him, so he ran away quickly. He was driving back now, but after Jess's comment, his face immediately lit up with smugness.

Sometimes people are just so childish. They can say something that's actually quite serious, but it just sounds distorted, and they still have to show off a little.

That's normal, though. It's like wearing fine clothes in the dark if you don't return home in glory. Li Ming doesn't have anything like returning home in glory now, so he just occasionally acts like a jerk in front of his friends.

Although Li Ming rarely does this kind of thing now, because Jess went to Cocolia to become an adjutant, and as for Lem, he's become eccentric since graduation. Li Ming seriously suspects that Lem, who seems to be studying psychology, is actually studying theology, but Li Ming has no evidence.

As for being a jerk with Ji Zi, Li Ming was just a little bored, not sick. If he lost his wife, Li Ming said he would have nowhere to cry.

"Hehe, if you wanted that much, why didn't you write it in the PPT?" Jess teased.

If Li Ming had included this condition in the PPT, Jess would be sure that Cocolia would never have agreed to it so readily.

"I don't really care, but I wonder which adjutant will be in real trouble then," Li Ming said with a hint of mockery.

Clearly, Li Ming had a very good understanding of Cocolia.

"Tsk..."

Jess clicked his tongue, while Li Ming laughed heartily, "Well, you chose it yourself. It's not like I didn't ask you if you wanted to come and be a teacher at my academy."

“There’s no way around it, people always have to do something.” Jess was just complaining; he couldn’t really say he wouldn’t do it. “Anyway, I can’t make all the decisions. If I really want to, I’ll do five things a month at most, sign a three-year contract first, and then consider renewing it later.”

Jess's offer was actually more than the hundred items Li Ming had offered, so Li Ming didn't hesitate. "Okay, I'll have Shan Shu liaise with you then."

"Ishigami Yamazō?" Jess twitched the corner of his mouth, unsure whether it was a good thing or a bad thing that Ishigami Yamazō followed Li Ming. Li Ming, to use an old Chinese saying, was truly a scoundrel.

"What's wrong?" Li Ming noticed the hesitation in Jess's tone.

"It's okay, I'm just praising you."

Why does what you said sound so unpleasant?

Thankfully, you can't see someone's face on the phone. Jess secretly rejoiced. It would be a miracle if it sounded pleasant to listen to; those were the words you said yourself.

"By the way, the fact that you're complaining to me now means Cocolia isn't here. Did she go to trade with the World Serpent?"

Li Ming guessed that, given Cocolia's decisive and efficient style, she would probably just go straight to the transaction.

"Alright then, I'll call her after she finishes the transaction." After agreeing on the terms, Li Ming remarked that Cocolia was truly forgetful of her past mistakes for daring to trade with the World Serpent.

"Then you'll have to talk to Commander Cocolia yourself."

Li Ming naturally noticed Jess's change in tone, but he pretended to be indifferent, "Oh, I wonder how the children at Cocolia Orphanage are doing. Do they miss me? Without me watching over them, I wonder if the Canaan Project is going smoothly..."

Li Ming instantly switched to motherly mode and began to nag incessantly.

This caused Jess, who was actually in Siberia, to break out in a cold sweat, while Cocolia had his phone in her hand.

"Cough cough..."

Cocolia cleared her throat and coughed twice, the coughs clearly reaching Li Ming's ears. "Thank you for your concern. The children are all fine. As for the experiment, you shouldn't participate."

"You look down on me?" Li Ming immediately sensed a strong sense of disdain in Cocolia's tone, which made him very unhappy. What right do you have to look down on me?

"Ah."

Cocolia simply nodded. Is it strange to be disgusted? Isn't this perfectly normal? Li Ming, don't you have any self-awareness about your own situation?

"You've killed the conversation..." Li Ming was speechless. The main reason was that he still had no way of proving that he wasn't a jinx. These people were too hateful. He couldn't feel a trace of human warmth in Anti-Entropy.

Only Himeko knew how to comfort her young heart.

"Alright, get to the point. You've been arguing with Jess for so long just to wait for me to finish the deal." Cocolia directly exposed Li Ming's pretense. Li Ming usually doesn't come to her unless he has a reason, so when Li Ming spoke like this, Cocolia always felt that he was putting on an act.

"Did you and Gray Serpent only trade some information about quantum singularities?"

"What else do you want to trade? Isn't this part the only part of the authorization documents you provided?" Cocolia retorted.

But Li Ming didn't expect that Cocolia would actually be so honest.

"You don't bargain?"

"Do our existing customers still need it?"

Both of them fell silent for a moment, and finally Li Ming spoke first, "Did you tell them about the news I mentioned about their leader?"

"They said they were aware of it, but they hoped you wouldn't get involved in their plans, as it was agreed upon in the first place."

Cocolia was puzzled as to what Li Ming had agreed to with World Serpent. Li Ming frowned. What was their plan?

Although she didn't understand, a voice still responded from inside, "Okay, I understand."

After hanging up the phone, Li Ming began to wonder if this plan was actually a ploy to seduce Siegfried!